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Grant will improve access to U. of I. Rare Book and Manuscript Library
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A top U.S. rare book and manuscript library has begun taking the embarrassment out of its embarrassment of riches by making all of its collection accessible. Only two-thirds of the materials in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been cataloged and are accessible, meaning […]
Master gardeners help others learn to grow
Shelley Siuts said she always has loved gardening, but for some unknown reason all her houseplants seemed to wither away. At the urging of some friends, Siuts joined the UI Master Gardeners program. Siuts, an information technology specialist in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, began the online training course in January and soon […]
U. of I. scholar awarded research grant by South Korean film council
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Frances Gateward, a professor in the African American Studies and Research Program, the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, and the Unit for Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded an overseas research grant from the Korean Film Council in Seoul, South Korea. Her winning project […]
Host families sought for Japanese students studying this summer at Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Total immersion in American English is the goal one Illinois summer program sets for its visiting Japanese college students. But immersion involves more than classroom instruction, says Stan Van Horn, a lecturer in the Intensive English Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who is coordinating this year’s IEI summer language […]
Chinese librarians coming to U. of I. to study ‘library futures’
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – There still are many realms where communications between the United States and China are strained or non-existent, but the realm that includes libraries, librarians and librarianship is not among them. In fact, the ties are only strengthening between one U.S. university, including its library school, and several Chinese academic libraries. For the […]
Web-cast lecture series to focus on museum studies
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Emerging developments in elite museum studies are now only a click away for the faculty, staff and students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The work and world of the museum, as seen through the lens of one expert at a time, is now available to anyone at Illinois, by means […]
New contrast agents may be on horizon for better medical imaging
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Research by scientists based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign may lead to the development of a new breed of “multimodal” contrast agents that could work within a host of medical imaging platforms – from ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) to magnetic resonance imaging and molecular imaging. Use of these new […]
A director to the stars and a professor to UI students
UI theater professor Daniel Sullivan is recognized as one of the leading stage directors in the United States today. Sullivan recently received the Village Voice Obie Award for Best direction for the Off-Broadway production of “Stuff Happens,” and he was nominated for a 2006 Tony Award for best director, for the Broadway hit “The Rabbit […]
H.G. Wells’ cartoons, a window on his second marriage, focus of new book
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – How does an imaginative but irascible writer – the future author of 100 books and the grandfather of science fiction – thank his literary partner and wife for her steady, selfless and sterling contributions to his career? How does he ask for forgiveness when he’s behaved badly? How does he diffuse the […]
Couple’s book on H.G. Wells’ cartoons to be celebrated May 25
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hosting a celebration for a new book conceived and born right under its roof. The event, a book signing, discussion and reception, is in honor of local authors Gene Rinkel, a librarian at Illinois, and Margaret Rinkel, a former high school English […]
White House rhetoric runs counter to policy realities, speech experts say
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – President George W. Bush frequently has been criticized for being verbally challenged, but a new rhetorical analysis of the Bush White House, based on the public record, argues that the president and his colleagues have demonstrated an impressive facility with the language. According to the researchers, whose findings appear in a new […]
U. of I. poet’s new collection fetes islands’ artists, musicians, shamans
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – In his new volume of poetry, Laurence Lieberman again beckons readers to explore the islands that have bewitched him for more than 40 years. “Carib’s Leap: Selected and New Poems of the Caribbean” (Peepal Tree Press) is the poet’s third retrospective homage to the Caribbean – from its sea floor to its […]